Formerly known as Atom Shell

The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

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Downloads

Prebuilt binaries and debug symbols of Electron for Linux, Windows and Mac can be found on the releases page.

You can also use npm to install prebuilt electron binaries:

# Install the `electron` command globally in your $PATH
npm install electron-prebuilt -g

# Install as a development dependency
npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev

Mirrors

• China

Documentation

Guides and the API reference are located in the docs directory. It also contains documents describing how to build and contribute to Electron.

Documentation Translations

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Korean
• Japanese
• Spanish
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese

Community

You can ask questions and interact with the community in the following locations:

• electron category on the Atom forums
• #atom-shell channel on Freenode
• Atom channel on Slack

Check out awesome-electron for a community maintained list of useful example apps, tools and resources.